Euripides

In this concise introduction, Isabelle Torrance engages with the thematic, cultural and scholarly difficulties that surround his plays to demonstrate why Euripides remains a figure of perennial relevance. Engaging with issues of social context, performance theory, 5th-century philosophy and religion, textual criticism, and reception, the author presents an astute guide to the Euripidean corpus from the widely read Medea to the lesser-known and deeply ambiguous Alcestis.